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Updated: May 11, 2025
Old Man Curry's eyes twinkled, but his voice was stern. "If I was a little black boy," said he, "an' I was wantin' my boss to take me on a trip down into Egypt, I wouldn't call it California. If I knew anything 'bout a four-mile stake race, I'd try to mislay the name of it. If I had been ridin' a big, hammer-headed hoss, I don't think I'd mention him except in my prayers.
One evening I learned almost by chance that he was about to try a new experiment and break into a new field. He took up the word "lose" at the table, I remember. "We lose our chances," he said, laughing, "we lose our figures, we even lose our characters; but we must never lose our temper. That is our duty to our neighbour, Frank; but sometimes we mislay it, don't we?"
Lavender had passed resulted in what Joe Petty called "a fair knock-out," and he was forced to spend three days in the seclusion of his bed, deprived of his newspapers. He instructed Mrs. Petty, however, on no account to destroy or mislay any journal, but to keep them in a pile in his study.
But he sped but ill, dwelling alone, inasmuch as he would forget to eat and drink and mislay or lose his hardly won wage. Once the town watch had to see him home because, instead of a book, he was carrying a ham which a gossip had given him; and another day he was seen speeding down the streets with his nightcap on, to the great mirth of the lads and lasses.
If you've happened to mislay a faith anywhere, the mountains are a good place to look for it." "Even faith in one's self?" "The easiest to lose and the hardest to recover? Yes, even that. Particularly that. To any one needing it, I'd prescribe a month over yonder. I've never been able to do that, but often, when the world seems a little gray, I ride up here for an hour. It does me good."
She clasped her hands to still her quivering nerves. This fresh ordeal was proving too much for her. "I can't help it," she said, with white lips. "I often mislay things. I am careless, I know. But I always find them again sooner or later. I will have a look for it while you are dressing." Her words ran on almost meaninglessly.
"It is extremely close in here, don't you think?" she complained. "And I was so careless as to mislay my fan. I feel almost suffocated." "Did you leave it at home?" he questioned. "Possibly I might discover a substitute somewhere in the room." "Oh, no; I would never think of troubling you to such an extent. No doubt this feeling of lassitude will pass away shortly.
One evening I learned almost by chance that he was about to try a new experiment and break into a new field. He took up the word "lose" at the table, I remember. "We lose our chances," he said, laughing, "we lose our figures, we even lose our characters; but we must never lose our temper. That is our duty to our neighbour, Frank; but sometimes we mislay it, don't we?"
Every body in Constantinople warned us to be very careful about our passports, see that they were strictly 'en regle', and never to mislay them for a moment: and they told us of numerous instances of Englishmen and others who were delayed days, weeks, and even months, in Sebastopol, on account of trifling informalities in their passports, and for which they were not to blame.
But, alert as ever, his quick ears detected me. With a sudden start, he raised his head and glanced round. "What! you here?" he cried, taken aback. For a second he appeared almost to lose his self-possession. "I came for my clinical," I answered, with an unconcerned air. "I have somehow managed to mislay it in the laboratory." My carefully casual tone seemed to reassure him.
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